Any fan of shonen anime knows that the famed Dragon Ball franchise helped inspire the “Big Three” of the late 1990s and 2000s, those being Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, and Tite Kubo’s Bleach. These pillars of shonen anime all took cues from Dragon Ball Z, such as giving heroes power-ups and new forms like going Super Saiyan, and they also tend to have lovable himbo action stars like Goku himself.However, the Big Three didn’t emulate Dragon Ball Z in the same way or even to the same extent. Some of them also borrowed ideas from other 1990s shonen titles while just paying modest tribute to Dragon Ball Z, and that fact is reflected in their respective heroes. Son Goku is still considered the template for all modern shonen heroes, so the question stands: who most closely followed Goku’s footsteps, between Naruto Uzumaki, Ichigo Kurosaki, and Monkey D. Luffy?One Piece protagonist Monkey D. Luffy clearly borrowed many personal traits from his Dragon Ball Z forebear, mostly for comedy’s sake. Like Goku before him, Luffy embodies the “big eater” trope, an eternally hungry male lead who shocks and annoys everyone with how much he can eat in one sitting. Goku had plenty of gags about that as a child and as a man, and Luffy, too, is always hungering for fresh meat and other snacks. Luffy even worked that into the combat system, healing much faster after a rough fight just by chowing down. More than once in One Piece, Luffy regained consciousness after a beating and cried out “MEAT!”, such as after he destroyed Magellan’s poisons with the aid of Ivankov’s Horm-Horm fruit. Once he ate his fill, Luffy was ready for action once again.RELATED: The Original Dragon Ball Desperately Needs A Modern Redub
Any fan of shonen anime knows that the famed Dragon Ball franchise helped inspire the “Big Three” of the late 1990s and 2000s, those being Masashi Kishimoto’s Naruto, Eiichiro Oda’s One Piece, and Tite Kubo’s Bleach. These pillars of shonen anime all took cues from Dragon Ball Z, such as giving heroes power-ups and new forms like going Super Saiyan, and they also tend to have lovable himbo action stars like Goku himself.
However, the Big Three didn’t emulate Dragon Ball Z in the same way or even to the same extent. Some of them also borrowed ideas from other 1990s shonen titles while just paying modest tribute to Dragon Ball Z, and that fact is reflected in their respective heroes. Son Goku is still considered the template for all modern shonen heroes, so the question stands: who most closely followed Goku’s footsteps, between Naruto Uzumaki, Ichigo Kurosaki, and Monkey D. Luffy?
One Piece protagonist Monkey D. Luffy clearly borrowed many personal traits from his Dragon Ball Z forebear, mostly for comedy’s sake. Like Goku before him, Luffy embodies the “big eater” trope, an eternally hungry male lead who shocks and annoys everyone with how much he can eat in one sitting. Goku had plenty of gags about that as a child and as a man, and Luffy, too, is always hungering for fresh meat and other snacks. Luffy even worked that into the combat system, healing much faster after a rough fight just by chowing down. More than once in One Piece, Luffy regained consciousness after a beating and cried out “MEAT!“, such as after he destroyed Magellan’s poisons with the aid of Ivankov’s Horm-Horm fruit. Once he ate his fill, Luffy was ready for action once again.
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